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Takács Quartet @ 50

Takács Quartet @ 50

Experience the Music Academy’s Summer Music Festival in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara as the world-renowned Takács Quartet – celebrating their 50th Anniversary – bring chamber music treasures to life. Vibrant artistic conversations emerge as profound musical relationships unfold before your eyes and ears.

Program

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet No. 59 in G Minor, “Rider”

LEOŠ JANÁCEK String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata”

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3

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Takács Quartet

quartet in residence

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Distinction
The Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation / Peggy Maximus Fund quartet-in-residence
violin
Edward Dusinberre
violin
Harumi Rhodes
viola
Richard O\\\\\\\'Neill
cello
András Fejér
Residency
Festival weeks 0-2

Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and András Fejér (cello)

The world-renowned Takács Quartet is now entering its fifty-first season. Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and András Fejér (cello) are excited about the 2025-2026 season that features varied projects including a new work written for them by Clarice Assad, commissioned by a consortium of North American concert presenters. For Hyperion Records the Takács recently released ‘Flow’ by Nokuthula Ngwenyama, and an album with pianist Marc Andre Hamelin that features quintets by Florence Price and Antonín Dvořák. The Takács maintains a busy international touring schedule. In August 2025 the ensemble performs in New Zealand, and in Australia where the centerpiece of a tour for Musica Viva is a new work by Australian composer Cathy Milliken, inspired by Bertholt Brecht’s ‘Sonnet of an Emigrant’, narrated by Angie Milliken. As Associate Artists at London’s Wigmore Hall, the group will perform and record for Hyperion two viola quintets by Mozart with violist Timothy Ridout. During the season the ensemble will play at other prestigious European series including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Konzerthaus, Berlin. The group’s North American engagements include concerts in New York, Boston, Buffalo, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Schenectady, Portland, and at Duke University and Middlebury College, Vermont. The members of theTakács are Artists in Residence at the University of Colorado and during the summer months join the faculty at the Music Academy of the West, running an intensive quartet seminar there.

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